Found this article from my friend, Debbie‘s blog. Thought I’d share it with you. (Also serves as a future reference for myself. *heehee*)

1. Moisturize

This is important. Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. Get those good skin care products – doesn’t necessarily have to be expensive.

2. Eat Good Food

Eat plenty of fruit, fish and vegetables, drink water.

3. Sleep

Get plenty of sleep. At least 8 hours of sleep. Lack of sleep makes you age faster. It’s true!

4. Don’t Smoke

Smoking constricts the capillaries in your face. This is why smokers look pale. It ages the skin.

5. Don’t Drink Alcohol

Alcohol is a poison. Drunkenness is a mild form of poisoning; hence its alternative name:intoxication

6. Don’t Sunbathe

In neolithic times men used to cure animal hides by exposing them to the sun. This was the earliest form of tanning; they were making leather.This is what’s happening to sunbather’s skin. That’s why 35 year-old sunbathers look 45, and 45 year-old sunbathers have skin the texture of a leather armchair.

7. Don’t Dye Or Bleach Your Hair

Unless your hair is grey or mousey, leave off putting chemicals on it. If you are healthy, your hair will reflect this. Bleaching is bad for your hair, and you may damage the follicles.

8. Don’t Wear Formal Clothes

Dress younger, look younger!

9. Don’t Wear A Beard Or Moustache, Or Long Hair (for men).

If your hair is thinning and long, or you have a beard or moustache, you’ll look older by ten years. Conversely, a short hair-cut and a clean-shaven face takes years off you.

10. Don’t Have Cosmetic Surgery.

This is a trap. Because a man has M.D. after his name doesn’t mean he has the skill of a Michelangelo or Da Vinci. That’s what you need to remodel a human face. Why? Because our perceptions of human beauty rely on very subtle clues in another’s face; small lines, dimples, contours, expressions.A cosmetic surgeon cuts these out, and you are left with a mask. You lose some of your personality. You become a type; a Hollywood social x-ray, a waxen-faced thing.

8:36 PM | Filed under: Health & Beauty